A thirty-something single woman decides to improve her life and chronicles the efforts in a diary, from family and career struggles to romantic challenges. Renee Zellweger, Hugh Grant and Colin Firth star. (2001)

A success-driven investment banker’s life begins to change when he travels to Provence to look after a wine estate he inherited from his late uncle, and meets a woman who also lays claim to the property. Russell Crowe, Albert Finney and Marion Cotillard star. (2006)

Unforgiven (TV One, 12.10, R)

A woman returns home after serving 15 years for killing two policemen. Suranne Jones, Peter Davison and Jemma Redgrave star in a telemovie edit of a three-part drama. What the critics say: The Independent, The Telegraph.